The most surprising hit-game of 2022 was none other than PowerWash Simulator. As the name would imply, it’s a “simulation” game where players powerwash things. That’s the entire elevator pitch, and the game never did anything to stray from that design ethos. It was mixed with some convoluted lore regarding…
A few months back, Nintendo had secured a rather ambiguous patent for a mechanic it called “summoning a character and letting it fight another.” While a reading of the patent without context would make you think it’s too vague to even apply to anything, the ongoing legal battle between Nintendo…
The Switch 2 might be the new hotness for Nintendo and the games industry, but that doesn’t mean the previous console has stopped selling games. As part of its financial results report for the latest fiscal quarter, Nintendo revealed updated sales figures for the most popular Switch 1 games and…
The most surprising hit-game of 2022 was none other than PowerWash Simulator. As the name would imply, it’s a “simulation” game where players powerwash things. That’s the entire elevator pitch, and the game never did anything to stray from that design ethos. It was mixed with some convoluted lore regarding…
Atari and Digital Eclipse’s Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is a klassic kompilation that documents the gratuitously violent fighting franchise’s meteoric rise to blockbuster status from Midway to NetherRealm Studios. If you’re here for the entertaining scrappy story about four young Chicago upstarts creating one of video gaming’s most recognizable marquee…
Pokémon games’ adherence to the established formula is something I’ve come to hold against the series. What that formula is has some growth behind it, but it’s when it plays with convention that we see the best results. That’s why I liked Legends Arceus so much — a game set…
A Long Overdue Confession I have a confession to make, dear reader… one I’ve never spoken aloud in good company, and one that honestly shames me as a lifelong Final Fantasy fan. Alright, here we go… I have never really played the Final Fantasy Tactics series until now. That’s…
Just last year we were treated to a remake of one of the most important and influential RPGs of all-time, Dragon Quest III. Remade in the HD-2D style that Square Enix has zeroed in on for several remakes and original RPGs, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake looked stunning. This year,…
While I’ve always had a very good relationship with my mother over the years, one of the first times I can remember bonding with her over a video game was in in the early 00’s with PopCap’s Zuma. She loved the games PopCap was making, and despite the moniker of…
Remakes of games can be a touchy subject. The line between preserving all that’s loved from the original and tainting its legacy is a thin one. Factor in a more contemporary hit to build off of though? Now that makes things easier, and ideally leaves us with something like Persona…
The beat-em-up genre tends to stay in its lane. Its tried-and-true arcade format has rarely been deviated from or added onto. There have been some recent attempts at modernizing the genre such as Xbox Game Studios’ live service brawler Towerborne or the open nature of WayForward’s River City Girls games….
Just over three weeks ago I began a review-in-progress of Hollow Knight: Silksong after having spent a little under ten hours playing. In the time since I’ve spent over 70 more hours with it, exploring far and wide across Pharloom. I’ve discovered a plethora of hidden areas and collectibles, fought…
Not only is Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds a dark horse rising to take on some massive kart racing competition, it’s more than up to the task. As the first fully cross-platform kart racer (the game is on everything from PlayStation 4 to Switch 2), it takes pole position as the most…
The original Pac-Man World 2 was Pac-Man’s first real jump to moving completely in 3D. Where the original Pac-Man World on PlayStation stuck to a 2D plane that could be navigated between a foreground and background, Pac-Man World 2 adopted a contemporary behind-the-back camera perspective and took Pac-Man to literal…
Over the last five years of video games, I struggle to think of a greater success story than Supergiant Games’ Hades. A shining example of a studio building upward with each of its releases, carrying the best parts and lessons learned from their previous work, it rightfully swept nearly every…
